abstract textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. the present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the touchstone series in terms of compliment and complaint speech acts. four touchstone textbooks (book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4) were selec...

This study investigated the extent to which first-year secondary school Saudi ELT textbooks integrate ecological education content. books various themes trigger language learners' interest. However, there is a dire need include related global issues or troubled state of Mother nature. Hence focused on two environmental themes: knowledge and awareness, attitudes behaviors, their sub-theme. The u...

The Caenorhabditis elegans GATA transcription factor genes elt-1 and elt-3 are expressed in the embryonic hypodermis (also called the epidermis). elt-1 is expressed in precursor cells and is essential for the production of most hypodermal cells (22). elt-3 is expressed in all of the major hypodermal cells except the lateral seam cells, and expression is initiated immediately after the terminal ...

introduction one very important aspect of any textbook is its content in terms of the motivation it creates in the readers. this is specifically true in efl textbooks where the learners need more than just content since content-wise, such books are not very much different from the learners’ world knowledge level. that is why material developers working in this area are usually consciously choos...

Underlying the recently developed notions of applied ELT and life syllabus is the idea that language classes should give precedence to learners’ life qualities, for instance emotional intelligence (EI), over and above their language skills. By so doing, ELT is ascribed an autonomous status and ELT classes can lavish their full potentials to the learners. With that in mind, this study aimed to d...